Cape Ann Artisans Spring Studio Tour
> Cape Ann Artisans is celebrating their 27th Annual Studio Tour Weekend: held on Saturday and Sunday, June 19 – 20 from 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. each day. This self-guided tour along the scenic coastline of Gloucester and Rockport presents a unique opportunity to meet fifteen professional artists > and see > their work in the setting in which it was created. The work represented includes:, pottery, painting, sculpture, photography, mosaics, and jewelry. Several of the artists will be demonstrating their working process during > the tours.
This year there are four new members on the tour. Kurt Ankeny grew up wanting to draw comic books and trained for it, developing intensive drawing skills along the way. He is now a fine oil painter and has a charming studio in the heart of Lanesville. In addition to doing his own work Kurt als teaches painting and drawing. Pam Stratton takes hundreds of tiny pieces of glass and turns them into complex and delightful images for both indoor and outdoor settings. Her “Pond Mosaic” flows through her garden in Rockport. Eileen Mueller, also in Rockport, is an oil painter whose work reflects her love of figurative drawing, interior scenes of people at work and the plein air study of the landscape. David Montgomery, our fourth new member, was a third generation boat builder, who, for some thirty years, crafted one-of-a-kind pleasure boats and fishing boats. Now instead of painting boat bottoms, David paints boats on canvas, often they are the very boats he built. He says: “I get equal joy out of rendering their shapes with brush and paint on canvas (and it doesn’t hurt my back).”
> Brochures with route maps will be available at the Cape Ann Chamber of > Commerce, the Rockport Information Booth on Rte 127 and at each of the > artisans. A bright magenta Studio Tour banner will mark each location. > For further information: tel: 978-281-3347 http://www.capeannartisans.com >
> Image is “Twin Lights” mosaic by Pam Stratton
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